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Re: Possible IDS-evasion technique


From: Burak DAYIOGLU <dayioglu () metu edu tr>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:41:19 +0200

Vadim Berezniker wrote:

Try sending HTTP/239.73, and Apache (and probably others) will still respond.
I believe they just respond to it as if it was a 1.1 request.
I don't know what it does when you specify something like 0.1

This, one again, shows that keeping applications/systems and NIDS's in sync is a difficult and almost impossible. A perfect NIDS does not only have to know the -correct- protocol behavior but also the -broken but popular- behaviors as well.

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